Fringe and method of making



1,637,882. 1927' c. B. STRETCH FRINGE AND METHOD OF MAKING Filed July 21 1925 j Patented aa .2,1927.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

CHARLES is. STRETCH, or BRooKToN, MASSACHUSETTS. I

method of making it.

FRINGE AND METHOD or MAKING.

Application filed J 111y 21, 1926. Serial No; 123,902.

The invention relatesto textile fringes and essentially to a woven fringe and According to the ordinary method of weaving these'fringes, a blank is formed of warp and weft threads, and comprises separate woven body portions joined by spaces in which the warp is continued and the weft is omitted as a filling, the weft'thread being floated between these body portions. The portion or portions of theblank in which the weft is thus omitted is equal to twice the length of the fringe so that when out through the middle the fringe'will han from the point at which the weft thread was last introduced into the'bod'y portions as a filling.

Great diiiicultyhas been encountered in the making of these fringes on accountof the tendency of the weft to ravel from the body portions, and the object of the invention is to provide means'whereby during the weaving this trouble may be overcome without necessity of afterward stitching or tying the weft thread at the point from which the fringe hangs.

The invention can best be seen and understood by reference to the drawings in which Figure 1 shows in enlarged of a blank or strip of fringe-forming fabric embodying the invention, and

Fig. 2 a face view of a piece of the fringe.

Referring to thedrawings 1 g 1 represents the woven body portion of the fringe composed of warp and weft threads 2 and 3, respectively the weft thread acting as a filler for the wrap in the usual manner. From this body portion 1 the fringe 4 extends formed by extending the warp threads of the body portion and omitting the weft thread from all but a few of the warp threads thus extending, as will presently be describechthe fringe then hanging from the edge of the body portion where the weft was last introduced.

As just noted the weft is omitted from a majority or all but a few of the warp threads thus extending to form the fringe, but the weave of the weft is continued beyond the edge of the body portion from which the fringe hangs through a few of the warp threads extending to form the fringe, forming a woven section 5. This weave of the weft thread is continued for some little distance beyond the edge from which the fringe depends but preferably not'to the fringe depends,

become lost'in the fringe. I

plan a portion outer edge'of the fringe. It prevent the weft from ravelling-from off the edge ofthe body portion from which the and its, effectiveness for this purpose is increased by tightening the weft, onto the-warp threads through which it is woven as shown in 2, this tightening being effected by a pull on the loose end6 of the weft causing the weft to tighten onto the few threads through which itis-woven when all tendency for the weft to ravel isehminated inasmuch as for the weft thread to loosen from the warp threads around which it is drawn;

This forms a very efficient method for'prevent ngthe ravellingof. the weft and does notm any'way'disfigure thefringeinasmuch as the few threads through which the weft is woven and around which To form the fringe by the continuous weavlng. of a blank, a body portion l 'is first woven. From this bod portion, 1 the warp threads are extended or floated to a second body portion 1 and the weft is omitted from majority of the warp threads thus extended or floated. The Weft'is continned through the remaining few of the extended warp threads to form a 'woven section 5 extending for some appreciable distance beyond the edge of the body portion from which the warp threads are being extended or floated. From the section 5 the. weft thread is floated to form another woven section 5 with thesame few warp threads as before and afterward the weave of the weft continued in forming a filling for the second body portion .1 of the blank and so on.

The extension of the warp and Omission of the weft, excepting as noted above. is for a distance twice the length of the fringe so that when out through the middle the fringe will hang from the opposite edges of the respective woven body portions from which the warp is extended or floated and along which the weft was last introduced as a filler.

After the weaving of the blank the floating warp and weft threads are severed between the respective body portions and then the weft thread is tightened onto the warp threads through which it is woven in forming the respective sections 5 of the weave by a pull on the loose cut ends 6 of the weft thread.-

is drawn 7 functions to c there is no tendency Having thus fully descr'bed my invention, I claimand desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United Stat-esz 1. A, woven fringe having a body portion comprising woven Warp and weft" threads 1 and a fringe composed of warp threads extended beyond said body portion with the weft'thread omitted from a majority of the fringe-forming warp threads but theweave of the weft thread continued through the remaining few of the fringe-forming warp threads for preventing the weft thread from rayeling. i

2. A woven fringe having a body portion comprising woven warp and weft threads 7 and a fringe composed of warp threads extended beyond said body portion with the weft thread omitted from a majority of the fringe forming warp threads but the weave of the weft thread continued through the remaining few of the fringeforming warp threads and tightened thereon.

4. A woven fringe blank comprising separate body portions of woven warp and weft threads and fringe-forming portions composed of warp threads extended between said separate body portions with the weft thread omitted from a majority of the fringe-forming warp threads but the weave of the weft thread continued throughthe remaining few of the fringe forming warp threads. j a

5. A woven fringe blank comprising arate body portions of woven warp sepand weft threads and fringe-forming portions conoposed of warp threads extended between said separate body portions with the weft threadomitted from a majority of the fringe forining' warpthreads but continued through the remaining few of the fringeforrning warp threads to form woven sec tions immediately adjacent said body portions with the Weft thread floated between said sections.

CHARLES B. STRETCH. 

